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age 6 *" DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1934 ~ Daily, QWorker merica’s Only Class Daily _ oncan ay PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST IWTERWATIONAL) | Working Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 BLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE “MPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E, 13th i bas New York, N. ¥ * raves 4-7954 except. Ma: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1934 Two Scottsboro Victories HILE the lawyer and his band of conspirators with the lynch authorities of Alabama, were ma- neuvering to wreck the defense of the Scottsboro boys, the International Labor Defense gained two signal steps in the fight for the freedom of the boys. The Alabama State Supreme Court, on motion of attorneys for t International Labor Defense, granted a stay of execution from December 7, when the boys were slated to be burned to death, until February 8. Saturday the United States Supreme Court granted the filing of an appeal in the case of Patterson and Norris, involving the fundamental issues of the case. Thus, despite disruption, despite every trick used by Leibowitz and his fellow enemies of the struggle of the Scottsboro boys and the Negro people against lynch terror and oppression of the Negro race, the I. L. D, through its intensified mass campaign backed up by effective legal measures, was able to force these two gains But this is just a greater breathing space. The fight is only now gaining in momentum. All of the forces working against the Scottsboro boys now be- cause of the victories of the I. L. D. will increase their machinations. With the case before the United States Su- preme Court, the tremendous mass campaign for the liberation of the Scottsboro boys will meet its criminal Leibowitz, real test. What happens throughout the country now, how well we can arouse the toiling masses, the Negro people, and all real friends of the Scottsboro boys, will really determine the decision of the Su- preme Court. Only a tremendous mass movement for the boys’ release will bring a favorable decision. The fight against the splitters and disrupters muist be intensified now more than ever. The Leib- owitz-created American Scottsboro Committee has announced collection of funds allegedly for “Scoits- boro defense.” All who know the slightest bit about the case know that it is the L L. D. that is leading the fight for the defense of the Scottsboro boys on every front, in the Alabama Courts, in the U. S. Supreme Court, throughout the country, and throughout the world. All funds collected for “Scottsboro defense” must be turned over to the 1. L. D. if it is to wage a victorious fight to the end for the Scottsboro boys. November 26 to December 2 has been set aside by the I, L. D. as “Scottsboro week.” During this period the most intense campaign for the liberation of the Scottsboro boys should be made, particularly winning the trade-unions for the fight. Floods of protest resolutions and demands for their release should pour in on the U. S. Supreme Court, on Gov- ernor Miller, on President Roosevelt. Let the two victorious steps forward won on Sat- urday spur us to greater action for the uncondi- tional freedom of the Scottsboro boys. Behind the Chaco War HE Gran Chaco war, between Bolivia and Paraguay, reached a new stage with the announced capture of the key Bo- livian Fort at Ballivan, and 10,000 Bo- livian soldiers. This brings Paraguay, pawn of British imperialism, closer to the oil fields of the Standard Oil Company, the Rockefeller con- cern. There will result now a still further sharpening of the conflict between the two giant robber powers, America and Great Britain, over domination of Latin America. The war was instigated by the Standard Oil Company, and the U. S. State de- partment, on the one hand, who dominate in Bolivia, and the British imperialists who control the puppet regime of Paraguay. The war is being fought over the control of the Gran Chaco region, with its important outlet for the oil fields of Bolivia. Standard Oil Co., with the approval of the State Department, has been financ- ing Bolivia, utilizing the slaughter of tens of thou- sands of workers and peasants to try to get control of new territories, British and American arms manufacturers, meanwhile, have been making huge fortunes supplying arms to both sides, with greater preference for the side-backed by their respective imperialist power. Récently, when the tide of batile was turning against Bolivia, Wall Street's puppet, Roosevelt con- yeniently rushed into the breech proposing an arms embargo, in order to help Standard Oil out of a difficult situation, and to avoid the capture of Fort. Ballivan. The British turned a cold shoulder to the proposition: but are now becoming peace-minded in order to utilize the recent advance in order to gain territorial advantage. All of the “peace” and “embargo” talks are utilized by the two bandit powers to advance their interests against each other, the wholesale slaughter of the peasant masses of both countries being a minor incident for them in the outcome of the con- flict. The Gran Chaco was is a preliminary stage in the greater conflict, and war preparations, of the two powers for control of the Latin American colo- nies. The sharpness of the present battles will in- tensify this conflict, and may lead to even greater and wider armed struggles for markets, colonies, oil and other plunder. Our task must be to expose and fight against the murderous role of the Roosevelt regime behind Standard Oil and Wall Street bankers, who expect millions in profit out of this war. We must, fight against shipment of arms io Latin America, and support: the Bolivian and Paraguayan masses in their struggle against their own war-makers, The Subway Terror Crew HE murderous attack upon a jobless salesman at the Times Square sub- way station Friday night by I. R. T. guards shows the extent to which. the company will go to protect the nickels which it gathers up from the millions of New York- ers who ride the subways. The victim, unemployed for maa is set upon the LR.T. guards because he g placed a copper slug instead x In the presence ors who had gathered at the to batter the of ay tu ile of nearly 2,000 spect station, the hired helpless victim Bleed: sault—a rest and on Welfare I foot of the pris than a score of the District Attor LR.T. guards under them under bail cious, the victim —is placed under ar- off to the Metropolitan Hospital nd, where a policeman stands at the It was only after more demanded action by s Office, that officials placed the arrest—and promptly released and of the as- The subways are becoming overrun with guards at the present time. Their frequent attacks upon helpless passengers are only incidental to their chief job which is to spy upon the subway workers who, despite a vicious system of espionage and terroriza- tion, are making heroic efforts to organize. While the city administration prepares to put over a huge steal in the interests of the traction gang in the form of a higher fare, which will rob the city’s workers of millions of dollars, the police department rushes to imprison a jobless worker framed up on a charge of depriving the LR.T. of five cents! The assault on Friday night is a harbinger of the terror that awaits the subway workers when they get ready to escape from the bondage in which they are held by the LR.T. And the bitter indignation aroused by this sadis- tic and cowardly attack on Friday is an indication of the reservoir of support which subway workers can look to when they come to getps with the lords of the LR.T. Defeat theLaGuardia-Wall | Street Tax Program HREE facts stand out. above everything else in the relief situation in New York City: . Relief is being cut. 2. Relief rolls will be slashed fur- ther. 3. The La Guardia administration is attempting to place the cost of financing relief on the shoulders of New York’s toiling population through a “scientific” tax program and guarantee the billions of Wall Street banks. What the ruthless, scheming, inhuman: plans of the bankers’ puppets in City Hall means in terms of human suffering is almost incalculable. Slow starvation, deaths, suicides, a mounting rate of in- sanity—these are what the relief-slashing of the administration actually signify, A new generation is growing into a city of mis- ery, a generation which will pay in terms of tuber- culosis, rickets and a variety of other diseases of malnutrition, for the cutting of relief and the new tax burdens that a banker-controlled city admini- stration wishes to visit upon them. Literally, the Wall Street bankers will receive an interest on their loans to the city compounded with the blood and bones of an agonized population, In October, Welfare Commissioner William Hod- son reports, 14,112 families were dropped from the relief rolis.-This is nothing more nor less than an execution of the dictates of the bankers and their spokesmen in City Hall, who have raised the cry of “Chiseler!” This cutting of the relief rolls was ac- complished solely by forcing down the whole level at which families must be in order to obtain relief. The most humiliating investigations, accompanied by a gagging of honest social workers within the re- lief administration, were the necessary means for such a slash. At the same time the “liberal” Mr. Hodson ad- mits that 17,000 families applied for relief in New York who never applied before. This means that new sections of New York’s population have ex- hausted their meager reserves. Unemployment is mounting. Prices are rising. The little saving of many workers who heretofore haye not applied for relief are almost gone. It is a matter of record that Mr. Hodson knows and has admitted all these things. In view of all of these. facts, relief must rise, relief expenditures on the whole and the relief given to each family. * . . Bu" the La Guardia administration is proposing @ new tax program, a “scientific” series of levies that will hit the masses of the city, that will cut their already far too low purchasing power even further, Comptroller MoGoldrick—who has no im- mediate worry about his political future and can afford to be frank—speaks in the true voice of the La Guardia and Tammany forces. In the brazen language of the bankers, McGoldrick demands a 2 cent subway fare tax, a payroll and sales tax. These are class taxes, taxes placed by the ad- ministration against the toiling population in order to meet the city’s debts to the bankers, to insure- a steady flow of gold into the coffers of the Mor- gan-Rockefeller banks. Any other “scientific” measure that La Gaurdia may concoct, workers may be sure, will be a new drive aimed at wringing more out of an already half-starved populace. Against these taxes and against the slashing of relief, the masses of New York City must set their faces like flint, LaGuardia, MoGoldrick, every alderman, every city official must hear a roaring “No!” from the workers, professionals, small busi- ness men and small home-owners in New York to the administration's “scientific” tax plans, Let the bankers pay! Let the city suspend the payment of the $180,000,000 interest on the bank- ers’ loans in 1935 pending the enactment of ade- quate federal unemployment insurance. Tax the utilities, Tax Wall Street, Tax large incomes. Tax large inheritances, These proposals, advanced by the Communist Party, can be supported by workers and other tax- payers of all shades of opinion. A united fight of Communists, Socialists, A. F. of L. members and small tax-payers’ organizations can and must de- feat the La Guardia-bankers’ relief-slashing and mass-taxing schemes. No time should be wasted in forming that united front. The lives and welfare of millions of people are at stake. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. PRE os is iw hs sks ves astuccecses Party Life Comradely Approach To Socialist Workers | Will Cement Unity | [7 was with extreme pleasure that I read your editorial on the “So- \cialist Party Referendum and United Front, in the Daily Worker of October 19th. It was to my | knowledge the finest example of a |comradely approach to Socialist | workers that has yet appeared in | the Daily, From personal contact with. So- cialist Party members, I feel safe in saying that had we analyzed the situation in that fashion in the past, we would be much further on the road to unity today. Let us not only adopt this com- radely approach in our struggle for | the united front, but even more im= portant, let us remember our own responsibility to train our own | membership for this action. All the | gains we may make in effecting a common front can easily be lost if we are not prepared individually, on how to approach our class | brothers. This is no easy task. We must effect a right about face in |many of our past performances. Our comrades must be prepared | with facts, and must know how to present them without insulting and | driving away those. who disagree, |and who may continue to disagree | for some time to come. Too many examples still exist of the sectarian impatience our comrades have to | the politically undeveloped, and this includes the Socialist workers. Too many times have I seen our com- rades after 10 or 15 minutes dis- cussion become disgusted and end up by labeling their opponent a “‘so- cial fascist.” This is not the fault of our party members alone. There has not been sufficient attempt to edu- cate the membership in the proper technique to be used. I hope that when District membership meetings are Called in the future, that some attention will be given to this im- portant question. When we ourselves have mastered this approach, when we havecar- ried this message to the local or- ganizations of the Socialist. Party and its affiliates, then we will find the rank and file listening and put- ting up a battle for the united | front, which no leadership will be | able to prevent. R.B., Unit 68, Sec. 2, Dist. 2. runs asin | | | | Nucleus. Organized By Proper Follow-Up 'HIS article is about one example of a single side of recruiting. The necessity of following up con- tacts must never be overlooked. On May Day this year a comrade of our unit went to the gigantic dem- onstration with a néw sympathizer, who had just joined the American League Against War and Fascism. The tremendous stimulus of the demonstration was coupled with constant agitation and propaganda by the comrade. The comrade gave the new sympathizer some pam- phlets: “Why Communism?” Com- rade Browder’s “Report on Fighth Convention,” the “Manifesto.” Back at the shop, the sympathizer was enlisted into mass: delegated meetings in Harlem, taken to social affairs. June 1, the sympathizer left our shop for a different one. Contact, however, was never lost. Further agitational work was car- ried on not only with the sympa- thizer, but with some of his new shop mates. Another comrade weat down and talked: to some of the shop-mates that the sympathizer had gotten together. The first com- |rade came down a few days later, |and a new shop nucleus of four |Party members was formed. The comrade from our unit worked with the new nucleus for two weeks to help them. The new nucleus has tripled its members and it is only six weeks old. This lesson points out the neces- sity of following through contacts until application for membership is received, and then helping the new comrades until they are on their way towards a Soviet America. Section 4, New York, Newspaper Men Strike in Newark (Continued from Page 1) city. An extra edition of the “Guild Reporter,” explaining the position |of the newspaper men, is being dis- | tributed throughout the city in thousands of copies. Police efforts to disrupt the walk- out by stopping the strikers’ sound truck six times Saturday, met. with most vigorous opposition on the part of the Guild here. Repeated protest compelled the admission by the local Corporation Counsel that the ‘sta- tute under which police officers stopped the truck were “unconsti- tutional and unenforceable.” Other Chapters Send Funds Guild chapters in many cities have already responded with pledges of moral and financial support, Washington and Cleveland Guilds sending checks. Members of the Cleveland Plain Dealer chapter rushed one hundred dollars as soon as news of the strike became public. A spirited meeting of the New- ark local of the Guild heard Hey- wood Broun, national president of the organization and Emmet Cro- zier Saturday night. Other news- paper men in the city are respond- ing magnificien*ty, according to all indications. A meeting of more than 700 peo- ple, held by the American League Agairist War and Fascism, on the same evening as the Guild gather- ing, heartily applauded the brief spech of a Ledger striker who asked for the suppotr of all citizens of Newark. N. Y. Guild Aids Strike New York Guild members will meet tomorrow night to plan finan- cial and other forms of help to the | Newark Ledger strike, Carl Randau, | president of the New York News- paper Guild announced yesterday. The meeting will be held in the Astor Hotel. THE I. L. D. TRIPS HIM AGAIN! be Burck ' Young Communist International Appeals to the Young Socialists NSWERING the arbitrary refusal of a small group within the Executive Committee of the Young Socialist International to coordinate the energy and activity of. the working class youth for the support of the persecuted and fighting Spanish proletariat, the Presidium of the Young. Commu- nist International, certain that this: refusal could not express the sentiment of the E. C. of the Y.S.L. as a whole in the following letter again makes an appeal for united action: Comrades: ‘The white terror is raging in Spain. Thousands of. bold and courageous fighters have perished in the heroic revolutionary. struggle against the un- bearable oppression of capitalism, against starvation and want. Many thousands of workers and peas- ants have been wounded. Tens of thousands, in- cluding an enormous ‘number ‘of youth, who fought for the cause of the working-class, have been thrown into prison. The soldiers, the dregs of human society—the fascists—are wreaking bloody vengeance in Asturias and throughout the country. The wounded men, old and young, workers and peasants, are in danger of execution. Tens of thou- sands of prisoners and their. families are living through hours of suffering ig expectation of savage vengeance, The bourgeoisie, the manufacturers and the land- lords, are preparing to fetter the working class and the peasantry. of Spain in the slavish chains of fas- cism. In many factories the entire working force has been dismissed. The young workers are being driven out of the treining schools. The employers are dooming to death from starvation those who dared to insist on their right to live. The Spanish Communist and Socialist youth fought shoulder to shoulder on the barricades against the common. class enemy. The French Communist and Socialist youth, on the basis of the united front, are jointly mobilizing all the forces of the youth in defense of the Spanish workers and peasants against fascist reaction. In Great Britain, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, and other countries, the Communist and Socialist, youth have formed a united front striving to carry out their international duty together, It is becoming plainer and plainer for the broadest: masses of the youth that the struggle of the Spanish proletariat is the struggle of the en- tire international proletariat against capitalism, and that any delay in defending our Spanish class com- rades, any delay in the struggle will mean new sacrifices and will allow the executioners unharmed to wreak their vengeance on the defenseless prison- ers, the wounded and their families. In the struggle against fascist reaction, in de- fense of the Spanish proletariat, nothing divides the workers, peasants, the employed and the unem- ployed. A powerful. international anti-fascist movement at one ‘time forced the German fascists to give way when they were preparing their ‘vengeance against Comrade Dimitroff, YE cannot be the slightest doubt that. the slaughterers. of the Spanish working class and peasants will also give way and capitulate like the German fascists if they feel. the force of the in- dignation of millions of people. For this very reason, in the interests of the struggle against fascist reaction and the defense of the Spanish toilers and the youth, we once more make an open appeal to the Executive Committee of the Socialist International of Youth. * , Olenhauer, with the agreement of the president of the Young Socialist International, Koos Foring, on October 16, 1934, on formal grounds, rejected the proposal of the Executive Committee of the Y.C.I. to hold a joint struggle against fascist reaction and in defense of the Spanish toilers, without submitting it to the bureau and the plenary session of the Executive Committee. of the ‘Young Socialist Inter- national. ” Following this example of Olenhauer, which it is~ difficult to properly describe, the leading organs of the League of Socialist Youth in Sweden and Czechoslovakia, also rejected the corresponding pro- posals of the Communist Youth.. The presidium of the Executive Committee of the Young Communist International cannot recon- cile itself with the reply of Olenhauer and Foring and with the position of the leaders of the Socialist youth in Sweden and Czechoslovakia, in the matter of the establishment of the united front in the in- terests of the workirig class and the struggle against fascism. Every day fascist reaction is mercilessly shooting down and executing without trial. the workers and peasants, the Communist and Socialist youth. For this reason, we once more propose that the Execu- tive. Committee of the Socialist International of ‘Youth should immediately discuss our proposal. for joint actions in the struggle against fascist reaction and in defense of the Spanish youth, their fathers and mothers, We are absolutely convinced that if there is a genuine wish to establish the united front of the toiling youth in the struggle against fascist -reac- tion, the Executive Committee of the Young Socialist International has evety reason to decide the ques- tion independently and in the positive sense -regard- ing the joint defense of the Spanish toilers, thus taking the initiative in bringing up this question at the forthcoming Plenary Session of the Socialist and Labor International. EF VIEW of these sincere motives, the President of the Executive Committee of the Y. C. I. requests you to allow its delegation to present at. the forth- coming ‘Plenary Session of the Executive Commit- tee of the Socialist International of Youth and to present its point of view and concrete proposals for a joint struggle against fascist reaction and in de- fense of the Spanish workers and peasants. With the aim of rearhing a more rapid agree- ment on this important question «nd in order to make it possible for the Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Young Socialist International and the Socialist Youth to discuss this question be- forehand, the Executive Committee of the Y.C.1. makes the following proposals: (1) During the period of the joint struggle against fascist reaction, to establish a united front between the Internationals and between the Com- munist and Socialist Youth organizations in all capitalist countries without exception, in defense of the Spanish workers and peasants and their young generation. (2) The basis of the agreement must-be one single condition—a joint struggle. and the mobiliza- tion of the broad masses of the youth against fas- cism and the brutal terror in Spain. It is under- stood that as soon as agreement is reached, mutual attacks will cease during the period of the joint struggle. (3) With the aim of better organizing an inter- national campaign and directing it, an international youth committee for the defense of the Spanish youth and their families should immediately be formed on conditions of parity. (4) To make an immediate appeal to all the non-reactionary mass youth organizations to send their representatives to the International Youth Committee and to form corresponding national and local committees in each country, in town and vil- lage, in mills and factories, mines and universities, and to carry on an international campaign. (5) It. will be the duty of the International Committee and of the national and local commit-- tees to. mobilize the millions of. the youth for a struggle against fascist reaction and to conduct an international campaign: For the stoppage of the brutal white terror in Spain. For the revocation of death sentences and the liberation of the prisoners. is For the cessation of the persecution of the fami- lies. of the killed and wounded workers, and the stoppage of dismissals from’ the factories, estates and trade schools. For the defense of the workers and peasants who have fied from brutality, for affording them the right of asylum and against surrendering them to the executioners. Against the military-fascist dictatorship. For political rights for the workers and peasants. For the right to legal existence for the Commu- nist, Socialist and other organizations of the toiling youtn, For the prohibition and serait! of all fascist reactionary organizations. It will also be a duty of the International .Gom- mittee and also of the national and local commit- tees to organize the collection of funds for assisting the families of the killed and prisoners and the or- ganization of an International Fund for the assist- ance of the Spanish workers and peasants; to or- ganize mass meetings, demonstrations and protest strikes; to expose the slanderous statements of the bourgeois papers in justification of the brutal terror exercised by the military fascist reaction in Spain. The presidium of the Executive Committee of the Y. C..I. is firmly convinced that these proposals will arouse the warmest response among the Com- munisis, Socialists and toiling youth of the whole world, because these demands mobilize and rally together the youth at the present moment for the struggle against fascist reaction. The Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Y..C. I. awaits a prompt reply from the Execu- tive Committee of the Socialist International of Youth, and expresses its hope that the decision ar- rived at will correspond to the interests of the struggle against fascist reaction and the defense of the heroic youth of Spain. The Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Y. C. I. recommends all Communist Youth Leagues to make a suitable proposal once more to the Socialist Youth and together -with them, to carry out their international abe and obligations to the Spanish proletariat. The Spanish proletariat have retreated, but their revolutionary forces have not been broken and World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— A Letter from Spain The New Leader’s Answer | Our Answer SPANISH woman, at the risk of her life, writes'a letter describing the fiendish vengeance wreaked against the revolutionary workers of glorious Asturias. We call the attention especially of all So- cialists to this letter, as it was pub- lished. in the last issue of the Socialist “New Leader.” The editors make it clear that they did not miss the message of the letter and head it, “Murderous Fury of Spanish Reaction Told in Letter.” The most important sec- tion of the document reads: “The destruction of the town of Oviedo was done by the .govern- ment’s metcenary “troops, © which, riding roughshop over international law, brought to the town the Moor- ish troops of the. Riff and the abominable Foreign, Legion. “With these people, plus the ar- tillery and air force, the Lerroux- Gil Robles governmént not only destroyed the town” of Oviedo, which the Moors and the Legion- naires set fire, pillaged and devase tated, but also the entire country- side of Asturias. “In the villages of Villablino, Vega de Rey, and others, the people shot were burned in piles, woundéd and dead together. “In Oviedo, in one. afternoon, in the courtyard of the Convent of Santo. Domingo, the _ legionnaires and. Riffians shot more than 700 prisoners, the most horrible thing being that among them were women and children. Thereis a photograph of this which will be published: in a book already prepared by the Socialist International in Paris. “Altogethér, in Asturias, the gov- ernment’s mercenary troops have executed nearly 2,000 workers and they have put more than 5,000 in prison. “One detail: To advance, Lopes Ochoa put prisoners in front of the troops to paralyze the miners’ ac- tion and once the advance was ac- complished, he shot. them all. t “Today in Spain there are 38,000 prisoners who are: being killed by hunger and brutal treatment. _ It is more. terrible to be a prisoner than to be shot. “Nineteen Socialist members of Parliament’ representing ae are in prison. “Youths, revolver in hand, run through the streets setting fire to everything and_ killing whoever seems to be a Socialist. “We look for help in the foreign press, so that the ‘clandestine’ murder in Spain should cease. “They go on with the comedy of trying to dispute with death the 23 men condemned by the tribunals when, without. tribunals, they have killed. more than 5,000 persons in the peninsula.” ao Neco ND should it ever be the lot of this Socialist woman in Spain, whose message cannot fail to arouse the anger and desire for ac- tion against fascism in the breast of any worker, to read the same issue of the New Leader in which her letter appears she will not find one single word of answer -to her appeal. She can earnestly look for help for her imprisoned comrades, She can wait until hundreds have died or have been killed, but not one word up to date will she find in the Socialist New Leader answer ing her plea for defensive action, for a concrete proof of interna~ tional solidarity. She can, on the ‘other hand, learn that. on a scote of occasions the Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, directed fervent appeals to the National Executive Committee of the’ Socialist Party, urging just such ‘international ac- tion as every imprisoned Asturias worker would want. in the United States. She will learn that there never was one word of reply. oe ee ‘SPECIALLY in Asturias, with which this letter most concerns itself, will the workers feel. the bit« ter disappointment of the failure of the American Socialist leaders to take immediate steps. for. a»united front in their defense.. For it. was in Asturias where the united front, of Socialists and Communists was established before it was through= out Spain. It was in Asturias where the Workers’ and Peasants’ government was set “up jointly by Socialists and Communists. It was in Asturias where the workers hero- ically held power, Socialists and Communists shedding their blood as the shock troops of the Spanish revolution, holding out so that the workers in the rest of Spain’ could defeat the fascist’ butchers. It-is to the heroic Asturias toilers that the Socialist leaders will have te account for their ne on the united front. Every Socialist act ask his leaders: What answer are you £0-" ing to give this Socialist woman? Five thousand have been slaugh- tered, she says. Thirty-eight thousand face death or worse, Socialists and Communists are concerned here; the whole work- ing class of Spain is concerned, Why can’t joint demonstrations be arranged now, immediately, for defense of these heroic haat in the front trenches against fas« cism? : their revolutionary energy and ace tivity have not been smashed. The hour is not far distant when the workers and peasants, with the sup- port of the international proletariat, will deliver a smashing blow at capie talism, and the victorious banner of socialism will wave proudly over Spain. PRESIDIUM OF THE EXECU’ meron COMMITTEE OF THE Y.OL,